House alumna Lisa Edelstein — fresh off a lawyerly stint on The Good Wife — is headed back to court, playing a tough Texas prosecutor in the Lifetime Original Movie, Blue-Eyed Butcher, which is set to premiere on …READ MORE

David Koechner — a.k.a. “Packer,” Michael Scott’s oafish former colleague and sometime BFF on The Office — is taking his well-honed freak show act over to Chuck, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively. READ MORE

The Vampire Diaries will kick off its third season on Sept. 15 with — yep, you guessed it — a big party! “Our first episode is Elena’s 18th birthday,” exec producer Julie Plec tells TV Guide Magazine. “But as is the pattern in Mystic Falls, the event never reaches its climax.”